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A gang of gunmen shot and killed an off-duty US airman and five other people at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez yesterday.

There was no immediate information on a motive for the attack that killed the US airman at the Amadeus bar in Ciudad Juarez, which also left a seventh person wounded, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state. But the methods bore the hallmarks of attacks by drug cartels.